Chromecast – an HDMI stick streams movies & music from the web to TV

Chromecast is an HDMI dongle with WiFi running simplified version of Chrome. Google set out to redeem their epic #fail with the Nexus Q by creating a traditional remote control free media consumption experience for the television. The tiny doohickey streams movies and music to the TV from the cloud and you can use either phone, tablet or laptop to control it. Available now in Google Play, Amazon, and Best Buy for only $35 bucks!

Chromecast Controlling TV with Tablet viewing Play Google Movies

In your favorite mobile and web apps like YouTube, Netflix, Google Movies & TV, Google Music, and Pandora- will be a new Chromecast button. Once signed into the gadget you can not only play/pause videos and music but control power and even volume using the phone/tablet buttons. This setup encourages group sharing of playlists and control can be passed to another networked Android and iOS device with ease including instant sync. Furthermore, you can multi-task and do other tasks with your phone while content is streamed to the tube. Google even extended this feature to work for laptops by projecting a tab from Chrome browser… a la Beta feature.

I grabbed one immediately… do you think you’ll grab one? Chime in the comments below!

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Just got the unit in the mail and set it up. Set up is a breeze: you plug it in to HDMI, plug in the USB for power (either to the TV or to the included USB power plug), connect to its ad-hoc network via the chromecast app and then it’s good to go.